MIS Magazine named the top 25 rising stars as part of their annual
Strategic 100 list of information technology innovators and leaders. "What sets these up-and-coming
firms apart is innovation, but more importantly, they also have buzz," wrote
John Lui, the editor of MIS ASIA. MIS Magazine is part of Fairfax Business
Media, and is published in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK."
Crescendo Networks continues to earn worldwide recognition as an
innovator. The company was awarded the prestigious Best of Interop Award for
Performance Enhancement at Networld+Interop, and was recently recognized as
one of Red Herring's Top 100 technology and business innovators.com
+1-408-569-5942

, Startech Environmental
Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting company, announced
today that the 10 ton-per-day Plasma Converter System for PlasTech Solutions,
Ltd. The commencement of the manufacturing
process scheduled for February 6, 2006, actually started about two weeks ahead
of schedule on January 24, 2006.

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"Our Maestro platform has proved itself in the market and brings
tremendous benefits, both in cost reduction and performance improvement to our
customers. The company's solutions are
available both direct and through a network of channel partners.

Startech Environmental Starts Manufacturing Plasma Converter for Australia

For further information , please contact: ruth. Longo, CEO of Startech said, "With PlasTech based in Australia,
GlobalTech in China, and Mihama in Japan, the Company's distributors are now
perfectly positioned to sell to and service the enormous Western Pacific Rim
and Asian markets. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and
irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics , solids,
liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products
and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and
other specialty wastes while converting many of them into useful commodity
products that can include metals, a syn-gas energy product called Plasma
Converted Gas (PCG)(TM) and also hydrogen for use and for sale.
Startech regards all wastes as valuable renewable resources.

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, the award-
winning developer of data center solutions that improve application delivery,
announced that it was recognized by Managing Information Strategies (MIS)
Magazine, Asia's leading IT management magazine, as a global top 25 Rising
Star . With Maestro, network
overhead is removed; latency is reduced from milliseconds to microseconds and
data center costs are dramatically reduced. Crescendo's
headquarters are in Israel and Silicon Valley.
PlasTech Solutions, Ltd.net or contact
Steve Landa at (888) 807-9443, (203) 762-2499 x148 or sales@startech.net.

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"We are honored to be recognized by MIS Magazine as one of the world 's
most innovative technology companies," said Shykeh Gordon, Crescendo Networks'
CEO. The company 's
Maestro application enablement platform was launched in May 2004 and is
currently available in Asia, EMEA, and North America. For more information please
visit http://www. of New South Wales , Australia is Startech's
exclusive distributor for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The Company
expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any
updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the
Company's expectations or any change in events , conditions or circumstances on
which any such statement is based.

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Crescendo Networks Named a Global Top 25 Rising Star by MIS Magazine

The MIS
Asia editorial team and a panel of noted IT directors and analysts make the
selection from companies around the globe.

Contact:
Tony Tissot
tony@crescendonetworks.Company Puts 20,000 pound-per-day System in Production For PlasTech Solutions
The System is the First of Its Kind in Australia

WILTON, Conn . The first-of-
its-kind Startech 10 TPD Plasma Converter in the PlasTech territory will be
processing an assortment of industrial and institutional wastes. The Plasma Converter
System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or
lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products . In doing so, the
System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and
safety .
For further information, please visit http://www.

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SINGAPORE, Crescendo Networks , Ltd. We are delighted to be recognized in this
impressive list of rising stars, and look forward to continuing our strong
growth in the region.com. Delivery is scheduled for a date later in
the year.buchanan@plastechenviro.com
Joseph F.

About Startech - a Waste Industry and Energy Company
Startech Environmental is a Waste Industry and Energy company engaged in
the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing
equipment known as the Plasma Converter System(TM). All
forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements
contained herein speak only as of the date of this press release.

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Yaron Danieli, Crescendo Networks' vice president of sales commented on
the ranking, "Asia and the Pacific region is an important area for Crescendo's
market-leading solutions for optimizing data centers across the entire
application delivery chain.

About Crescendo Networks
Crescendo Networks, builds the Maestro data center platform that helps IT
professionals break application deployment barriers commonly associated with
front-end and back-end application servers and networks.CrescendoNetworks. has been put into production. Mihama, located in Kobe, Japan is expected to have
completed the recommissioning of its Startech Plasma Converter System, moved
from Fukuoka, and to be processing wastes by the end of February, 2006 in
Mihama's newly built Plasma Converter Processing and Demonstration Center in
Kobe. Plasma
Converters process, as feedstocks, materials previously regarded as wastes.startech .

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements regarding the Company's plans and expectations regarding the
development and commercialization of its Plasma Converter(TM) technology. Factors that
could cause such a difference include, without limitation, failure of the
customer to obtain appropriate financing for the project , general risks
associated with product development, manufacturing, rapid technological change
and competition as well as other risks set forth in the Company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.